Zulma is an educator, writer and speaker who has developed and taught her life’s work globally. After traditional university study, she explored various psychotherapies, world religions, mystical traditions, and energetic practices, culminating in what has become her teaching, ‘Inner Alchemy’.

Zulma was born to Puerto Rican parents in 1943 in New York. Her roots bequeathed her a Latin heritage and character, while her exposure to North American and European cultures helped to shape her intellect. She studied Humanities at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, completed a BA in Romance Languages, and an MA in Education at New York University, and went on to post-graduate studies in psychology and counselling at San Fernando Valley State College in California.

In the California environment of the ‘60s and ‘70s, she embraced emerging New Age practices and psychological developments such as training under Arthur Janov at the LA Primal Institute. Zulma’s inner drive to explore the roots of the human being on all levels led her from the Americas to Europe, to India, South America, and finally back to Europe to cross paths with different teachers and to be initiated in various traditions. She was surrounded by Eastern and Western ancient wisdom and engaged in multiple psychotherapies: Gestalt, psychosynthesis, bioenergetics, energy balancing, polarity, regression, and psychic arts, among others. On the inner front, she immersed herself in world religions, meditation, and healing methods: Esoteric Christianity, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Zen, Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism, Tantra, and Western philosophies, esoteric science, occultism, and parapsychology.